Indonesia Mulls Options
To Underpin the Rupiah

JAKARTA, Indonesia -- Indonesia's search for a way to stabilize the rupiah has taken it full circle: to the prospect of adopting the currency band system it had before the crisis began.

Following talks with International Monetary Fund officials, central bank Gov. Sjahril Sabarin said a trading band was being considered. He stressed, however, that the band was just one of several options Bank Indonesia was studying and that a formal...